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: 20" Wheels/Tires


philhalbach
12-16-2007, 11:00 PM
Any Insight on 20" wheels? The dealer tells me that with the 20" wheels you will experience very short tire life? Is this true? 20" Wheels on LMM? Will you need to make modifications? Post Pics if you got em!

llybyppe
12-16-2007, 11:08 PM
i run 20" rims on my truck and love it. All I have is a leveling kit and it gives it a nice stance. I use to run nitto terra rapplers and just switched to the nitto dune grapplers and so far so good. wear depends on which ire you go with. The terra grapplers wore great, no noise but I go in the sand alot and spun a little much. Ive had the dune grapplers now for 10k miles and ride is great, low noise , wear looks goog and hook up great in the sand.

gwnkids
12-17-2007, 12:47 AM
Here are my 20" w/goodyears I went with the 275/70/20 just a nice look, dont forget the level keys and some zip ties
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/gwnkids/07truck058Medium.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/gwnkids/07truck053Medium.jpg

Josh F
12-20-2007, 09:27 PM
What did you do to make those 20's fit? What offset do the rims have?

kakymax
12-21-2007, 08:51 AM
I have pics in my gallery of my two sets of 20" on my LMM.

gwnkids
12-22-2007, 08:19 PM
Josh, I added the level keys and had to trim the inside of the rocker panel the pro comp keys show a good how to and them zip tied the liner back the only pain was the emergency break cable sticking into the wheel well too much so I had to zip tie it back also.

hookdOnDmax
12-23-2007, 02:52 AM
I have pics in my gallery of my two sets of 20" on my LMM.
@ kakymax:
Sure wd like to see some more close-up pix of both sets of wheels you mentioned. Which style of AmEagles are they?

NCMIC
12-23-2007, 09:01 AM
the tire life on 20s depends on the tire and rating. if you maintain a load E range tire, you should still get reasonable mileage out of the tires as the tire won't roll under the wheel in turns as the D rated tire does. I had BFGs and they were D rated and wore out in 30K miles. But these Michelins are E rated and seem to be doing very well. I've alredy rotated them once and no issues yet.